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      <h1>About Kettle Cookbook</h1> 
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          This documentation was generated with kettle-cookbook. 
          Kettle-cookbook is an open source auto-documentation tool for Pentaho Business Intelligence.          
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      <h2>License</h2>
      <h3>Copyright and Software license</h3>
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          Copyright of kettle-cookbook belongs to <a href="http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/">Roland Bouman</a> and other <a href="#contributors">contributors</a> to kettle-cookbook.
          The copyright holders provide kettle-cookbook as free software under the terms of the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL).
          For the details of the LGPL license, please refer to the documentation of the free software organization.
          A copy of the LGPL license is included in the root of the kettle-cookbook project in the file <code>COPYING</code>.          
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          The LGPL ensures the freedom to run, copy and distribute the software that makes up kettle-cookbook, either stand-alone or as part of another software product (derivative work).
          These freedoms are independent of any commercial objectives: you can enjoy these freedoms free of charge, but you are equally free to charge a fee for the kettle-cookbook software.
          
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          The LGPL also ensures the freedom to modify the software that makes up kettle-cookbook. 
          If you distribute a modified version of the kettle-cookbook, 
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      <h3>Generated Documentation License</h3>
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          The kettle-cookbook software generates documentation. 
          The copyright and license for the documentation generated by kettle-cookbook is completely separate from that pertaining to the kettle-cookbook software.
          You should supply appropriate copyright attribution and choose your own license for the documentation you generate.
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          When attributing copyright, you should take into account that generated documentation may reproduce snippets of program code for documentation purposes.
          Therefore, the copyright for the generated documentation may apply to not only the whomever is generating the documentation, 
          but also to the authors of the software that is being documented.
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          Further considerations pertaining to the appropriate copyright attribution and license for the generated documentation is outside the scope of kettle-cookbook.
          However, for software authors the practical approach would be generate documentation as part of their software build process, 
          and to distribute the generated documentation along with the software, all under the terms of one and the same software license.
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      <h2>Distribution</h2>
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          You can obtain it at the kettle-cookbook project site (hosted via google code).
          From the project site you an either do a subversion checkout, or download the latest stable version.
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          As explained in the <a href="#license">license</a> section of this document, everybody is free to distribute kettle-cookbook, or a derivative work thereof.
          Therefore, it may be possible to obtain through another channel.
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      <h2>How to Contribute</h2>
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          If you choose to modify the software 
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